[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 1 (Monday, January 5, 2004)]
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Executive Order 13322--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

December 30, 2003

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the laws cited 
herein, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Statutory Pay Systems. The rates of basic pay or salaries 
of the statutory pay systems (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1)), as 
adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5303(b), are set forth on the schedules attached 
hereto and made a part hereof:
    (a) The General Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5332(a)) at Schedule 1;
    (b) The Foreign Service Schedule (22 U.S.C. 3963) at Schedule 2; and

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    (c) The schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs (38 U.S.C. 7306, 7404; section 301(a) of 
Public Law 102-40) at Schedule 3.
    Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service. The ranges of rates of basic pay 
for senior executives in the Senior Executive Service, as established 
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5382, as amended by section 1125 of Public Law 108-
136, are set forth on Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
    Sec. 3. Executive and Certain Other Salaries. The rates of basic pay 
or salaries for the following offices and positions are set forth on the 
schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof:
    (a) The Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5311-5318) at Schedule 5;
    (b) The Vice President (3 U.S.C. 104) and the Congress (2 U.S.C. 31) 
at Schedule 6; and
    (c) Justices and judges (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 252, and 461(a), 
section 140 of Public Law 97-92, and Public Law 108-167) at Schedule 7.
    Sec. 4. Uniformed Services. Pursuant to section 601(a)-(b) of Public 
Law 108-136, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203) for members 
of the uniformed services, as adjusted under 37 U.S.C. 1009, and the 
rate of monthly cadet or midshipman pay are set forth on Schedule 8 
attached hereto and made a part hereof.
    Sec. 5. Locality-Based Comparability Payments.
    (a) Pursuant to sections 5304 and 5304a of title 5, United States 
Code, locality-based comparability payments shall be paid in accordance 
with Schedule 9 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
    (b) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take 
such actions as may be necessary to implement these payments and to 
publish appropriate notice of such payments in the Federal Register.
    Sec. 6. Administrative Law Judges. The rates of basic pay for 
administrative law judges, as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5372(b)(4), are 
set forth on Schedule 10 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
    Sec. 7. Effective Dates. Schedule 8 is effective on January 1, 2004. 
The other schedules contained herein are effective on the first day of 
the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2004.
    Sec. 8. Prior Order Superseded. Executive Order 13282 of December 
31, 2002, as amended by Executive Order 13291 of March 21, 2003, is 
superseded.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 December 30, 2003.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:22 a.m., December 
31, 2003]

Note: This Executive order and the attached annexes were published in 
the Federal Register on January 2, 2004.